Happy Children's Garden (Cambodia)

In the 1970s, the brutal Pol Pot regime nearly destroyed Cambodia, killing around 2 million people through execution, forced labor or starvation. Thirty years later, the country still struggles to meet the basic needs of its people. Deep psychological scars remain, and many suffer from stress related disorders. Through this broken world walks Cambodia's next generation, growing up largely ignored and unwanted by adults who do not listen to them and cannot afford to send them to school. Instead, these children must stay at home, tending to younger siblings and doing housework. Lack of education even extends to hygiene and disease, which children can fall victim to so easily. Even those who are allowed to attend Sunday school may not get the guidance and love they need, as teachers lack the education and materials to adequately help them.

Seeing the desperate need of its nation's children, TWR-Cambodia's team produces the Happy Children's Garden program, a weekly 15-minute Bible story series geared to reach children of all ages. Beginning with creation and ending with Christ's return, each program not only teaches life applications, but also biblical traditions, customs, culture and the geography of the Holy Land, so that children will have a more complete knowledge of Scripture. Listeners learn songs performed by children in churches TWR's team visits, and they can win prizes by sending in correct answers to questions about the day's story.

Happy Children's Garden is currently aired on local FM stations throughout Cambodia. The TWR-Cambodia team also touches listeners' lives on a personal level through correspondence and rallies held in different villages, where they learn more biblical lessons, receive gifts of basic hygiene items and eat food specially prepared by volunteers.

Your gift of $100 will help direct Cambodian children toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

A Season of Hope in Japan

What began as a ministry to Japanese tsunami survivors seven years ago has grown into a full-blown, countrywide lineup of programs for Japanese listeners that airs over 22 FM stations.

More than a dozen pastors produce five biblical programs while also ministering through TWR’s Every Man A Warrior men’s ministry and the Women of Hope radio program for women. TWR’s Truth in the Test Tube program for scientists and atheists is next up for translation and airing to a potential audience that exceeds 10 million people across Japan.

The staff also conducts training and distributes gospel tracts throughout the year. TWR’s Japanese staff is greatly burdened to reach a country that has been called the second largest unreached people group in the world.

Will you come alongside them to strengthen this outreach? Our goal for the coming year is $115,000.

Africa Orality Projects-Unreached Peoples

Visit a rural Hausa village in West Africa, and sooner or later you’ll come across a group of children and adults gathered around an elder telling a story. They're doing more than listening to a story, though—they’re taking part in the rich cultural heritage that defines the Hausa and gives a strong sense of their place in their community and world.

The Hausa are considered “oral learners”—that is, storytelling, drama, and other oral-teaching forms are some of the best ways to reach their hearts, even among those who are literate. They are also one of Africa’s largest “unreached people groups,” with only .04 percent being evangelical Christians, and more than 30 million of them live within range of TWR’s West Africa Transmitting Station.

That’s why, with the help of people like you, TWR has developed innovative programs that use traditional teaching forms to share the gospel story, like the Hausa-language program Hasken Rai (Light of Life), in which a younger person asks an elder questions about a Scripture passage.

And the Hausa people are being changed by the Word! Just last year, thanks to many who support Hasken Rai, almost 2,500 Hausa listeners responded with testimonies like this one:

“Thank you. I got converted to Christianity through your programs. I was about to perish, but your program set me free. Please pray for me, because I want to understand what God requires from me since I received Him as my Lord and personal Savior.”

The gospel is the greatest true story ever told, and with your gift right now, you can help tell it to the Hausa and four other unreached “oral-learning” people groups in Africa who may never hear it any other way. At only $20 a minute to reach an average of 1.2 million people, how many minutes of God’s truth can you provide?

Cambodia Studio

TWR's national partner in Cambodia has a long history of producing and airing a popular program for children in the Khmer language called Happy Children's Garden. The on-air episodes are complemented by rallies conducted in villages where they can personally minister to children with songs, Scripture, and puppetry while also providing them with a meal.

Other Khmer radio programs include Women of Hope and several translated programs of our media partners. Unfortunately, the recording and production studio is in very bad shape. Short-term fixes are no longer working, and the production of programs has become compromised. A major upgrade to the studio is needed to sustain TWR’s ministry in Cambodia.

The population has cause for despair in one of the world’s poorest countries. Poverty drives thriving industries in drug trafficking, prostitution, and child labor, but here's what one listener to Women of Hope said: “I learned that true joy and peace are from God, who changes me and enables me to live with grace.”

A gift to TWR's Cambodia studio upgrade will allow more Cambodians to hear about the grace of God that replaces despair with hope. We hope to raise $50,000 for the coming year.

Champions Arise

One of TWR’s newest ministries, Champions Arise, was launched in response to the call of our listeners for a program specifically for men.

Champions Arise uses prayer, small groups, and mass media to challenge, encourage and coach men worldwide to become champions of Christ, enabled by God’s Spirit to live out their true identity in him and to run the race of faith through his power.

The Champions Arise radio program has been translated into more than a dozen languages using content from three partner ministries: The Four Priorities, Every Man a Warrior, and Adult Children of Divorce.

Champions Arise encourages men to embody Christ’s example of humility and integrity, to build Christ-honoring relationships, and to be committed to prayer and the study of God’s Word, living it out in every aspect of their lives.

Specific needs include airtime for Russian broadcasts, airtime for Indonesian broadcasts, and translation of the programs into Albanian. Champions Arise would like to raise $20,000 in the next year to continue ministry expansion.

Czech Children's Programming

The Czech Republic has the highest percentage of atheists in the world. In most cities and towns, there is no local evangelical church or Sunday school available to help them find God or even find out that He exists. Children born into this culture may never get the opportunity to hear about Jesus and come to an early belief in Him. These children are not only the future of their nation, but a very real hope for the present as well, as their faith can lead families, neighbors, and communities to the Lord.

To respond to this need, TWR is developing an exciting range of new children's programs that bring the good news of God's love to many young lives for the very first time. Designed for all ages, the aim of the programs is to change young lives for Christ. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a new era of children's ministry in the Czech Republic from the beginning, but the work can only grow as the Lord leads supporters to come alongside workers in the field.

A gift of $50 will cover the costs of preparing, producing and broadcasting one full 15-minute Konafasek program on radio and other media devices. Konafasek, which focuses on sharing biblical principles on life in a story-telling format that children can easily understand, is a term used at the end of the day when kids would crawl under the blanket.

Alternatively, a gift of $300 will make 90 minutes of the Kormidlo program via radio and other media devices possible. Kormidlo means ‘rudder’ and seeks to explain in a dynamic, interactive way how God needs to be the rudder of our lives.

There are approximately two million listeners waiting to hear that God loves them. Please consider supporting children's programs in the Czech Republic today!

Discipleship on the Air Farsi Program

The Persian-speaking world is made up of countries whose religious and traditional beliefs make it extremely difficult to penetrate with the gospel. Churches grow slowly, if at all, as they are beaten down by governments, communities and families antagonistic to Christianity. With so few resources to bring up new believers, pastors and lay leaders lack the deep knowledge and understanding of the Bible they need to nurture their small flocks.

Where missionaries are locked out and local Christians face persecution, radio can reach quietly into the homes and hearts of Persian-speaking believers. In cooperation with others, TWR has developed Discipleship On The Air (DOTA), a discipleship and mentoring program for emerging house church leaders in the Middle East. This project combines seminars, radio broadcasts, on-the-ground ministry with and appropriate study materials to meet the needs of leaders. A carefully developed curriculum is being aired via radio with complementary written material distributed to a select group of people ahead of time. The written material is also available on the Internet.

Please consider partnering with us in this important ministry to Persian-speaking church leaders. Your gift today will make a significant difference to airing this desperately needed program to the Persian Speaking World.

Global Personnel Fund

With a worldwide missionary staff, powerful radio stations to maintain and offices in many countries, personnel needs exist on an ongoing basis with very limited funds, or none at all, available to fill them.

TWR?s Global Personnel Fund allows us to fill critical needs for personnel when missionaries return to the U.S. for furlough, when health problems or other emergencies arise, and when our work exceeds our human capacity. At times this fund has helped to get new missionaries to the field when they were badly needed there but were not fully funded yet by churches and supporters. Each time these funds are used to support an individual or family, it is a great blessing to them and to TWR.

Your gift to this fund allows our staff to see God?s hand providing for their God-given calling. And having their help allows us to keep our programs on the air. We hear from our listeners daily as they plead with us to keep broadcasting and feeding them with spiritual nourishment, so this fund is also a blessing to our listening audiences around the world.

Guam Generator Project

Since the 1970s, TWR has been broadcasting across Asia from our shortwave station, KTWR, on the island of Guam with a reach into countries such as India, China, Indonesia, North Korea, Vietnam, and Australia.

TWR’s team of missionary engineers, mechanics, and computer technicians maintain six antenna arrays and three high-power transmitters. Having a stable electricity supply is vital to our broadcast operations, but typhoons (hurricanes) that are common to the Pacific can knock out power lines or the island power plants.

Having a backup generator keeps us on the air, but our current generator is 25 years old and runs the transmitters at only 50 percent power. Plus, replacement parts are hard to find. A new generator is critical to powering all three transmitters and expanding ministry in the future.

After several years of fundraising, our remaining need is $150,000. TWR is seeking God’s provision to complete the replacement of the KTWR backup generator.

Hope for Syria

On July 1, 2013, TWR launched a program in the Arabic Syrian language called Hope for Syria. More than two years later, the 15-minute weekly broadcasts continue to share the hope of Christ with Syrians during this time of fear and war.

The program gives the local church, despite being under siege, a voice to spread the hope of Christ among its countrymen. Each program addresses three areas: the psychological effects of trauma, fear, anger or uncertainty; medical concerns; and spiritual encouragement for the listeners.

Censorship and even the upheaval of war can never fully prevent radio waves from carrying the gospel to frightened people who desperately need hope. But your support is needed to keep this crucial channel of communication open. Thank you for standing in the gap with us!

Hope for the Middle East

”Following Jesus would not have been so clear and understood if not for the Talmatha radio program. I’m 26 years old and found Jesus through your broadcast. Thank you for helping me move from the darkness to the light of the Savior!”

Gifts to the Hope for the Middle East project keep a wide variety of Arabic programs on the air by radio, Arabic Internet Radio, and in some cases handheld devices distributed by TWR.

Programs for young people, along with Women of Hope in Arabic and the discipleship program Talmatha, are providing spiritual food and guidance. Hope for Syria brings comfort and healing words to displaced Syrians who have endured years of devastating war, and Oasis of Hope provides four different programs for specific age groups to provide healing and biblical guidance in young lives.

Our goal for the next year is $225,000.

Hungarian Roma Program

As the largest transnational minority in Europe, the Roma have coexisted with other people groups for centuries, but their existence has been a struggle. Unemployment, social exclusion, and marginalization in health care and education have led to poverty and shorter life spans.

However, since TWR’s Hungarian partner started producing Roma programs 20 years ago, the ministry has seen a growing openness to the gospel among the Roma and witnessed more and more people accepting Jesus Christ as Savior.

TWR's Hungarian program for the Roma airs 15 minutes each week in the Carpathian Basin, which is home to nearly 10 percent of the total Hungarian population. The goal of the program is to strengthen the Christian commitment of Roma radio listeners, and interestingly, the episodes have piqued the interest of non-Roma listeners as well, resulting in bridges of understanding and reconciliation.

TWR is receiving feedback from listeners in Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, and Serbia. Your gift will help us to meet our goal of $25,000 for the next year.